Angelika Nebel

Angelika Nebel (born August 16, 1947 in West Berlin ) is a German pianist , piano teacher and university professor .

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Angelika Nebel

Angelika Nebel comes from a musical family. She received her first piano lessons at the age of 8 from the Berlin organist and pianist Walter Dickmann, who opened up the path to JS Bach for her at an early age . At the age of 10 she was accepted by the Berlin City Conservatory. Here she received lessons in piano from Hans Reichert and in music theory from Walter Dickmann. She began studying music at the age of 16 with Jürgen Uhde at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart , and continued with Werner Hoppstock at the Darmstadt City Academy for Music. She received an artistic stamp from 1968 during her studies with Hans Leygraf at the State University for Music and Theater Hanover, from which she graduated in 1973 with the concert exam.

In 1978 she became a lecturer at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory Frankfurt am Main . In 1981 she received a teaching position at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . In 1995 she was appointed professor at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf , where she worked until 2014. Angelika Nebel began to give concerts during her student days. She gave numerous concerts in Europe - in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Latvia - and in South Korea .

Extensive cooperation developed with German and other European radio and television companies such as DLF , hr2 , NDR , SFB, SR, SWR , WDR , Radio Bremen , ZDF Mainz , Radio Zurich, Radio Stockholm and Spanish Radio Madrid.

Angelika Nebel has given concerts at various festivals, such as the Darmstadt Days for Contemporary Music (1970), Frankfurt Feste in the Alte Oper (1982), in the Semperoper Dresden as part of the 2nd Dresden Days of Contemporary Music (1988), at the Robert Schumann- Festival Düsseldorf (2000), the 7th Klevischer Kultursommer (2005), at the Bad Hersfeld Festival Concerts (2012) and the Rheingau Music Festival (2015). She gave master classes in Bad Hersfeld , Essen , Riga / Latvia and in South Korea. Her extensive group of students includes Vita Gajevska, Su-Youn Jung, Yumin Kim, Ulrich Murtfeld, An-hoon Song and Wagner Stefani d'Aragona Malheiro Prado.

In the 1980s Angelika Nebel was one of the pioneers who devoted herself to the compositions of Clara Schumann , which until then were almost unknown in the concert and record sector. She has also played numerous compositions by women composers such as Cécile Chaminade , Harriet Cohen , Violeta Dinescu , Fanny Hensel , Myra Hess and Elinor Remick Warren in concerts, CD and radio recordings.

For several years Angelika Nebel devoted herself particularly to the music of the 20th century. This led to world premieres and dedications of works by composers and arrangers such as Hans Darmstadt , Klaus Kühnl, Mathias Spahlinger , Wagner Stefani d'Aragona Malheiro Prado and Frank Zabel.

Angelika Nebel, Bärenmühle in Lengelbachtal 2015

She paid tribute to the work of the Spanish composer Padre Antonio Soler (1729–1783), whose extensive sonatas she discovered in collaboration with the American concert pianist and music researcher Frederick Marvin , made it known in concerts in Germany and Spain and published a CD and an article about published his piano music.

Between 2009 and 2018 Angelika Nebel published five CDs with Bach transcriptions.

Angelika Nebel lives in Frankfurt am Main .

Discography

• Joseph Haydn; Johannes Brahms; Olivier Messiaen; Cristóbal Halffter . Electrola, Cologne 1985.
• Clara Schumann. Piano works . Pedagogical publishing house Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1987, DNB 351997237 .
• Joseph Haydn. Eight sonatas . amphion records, Karlsruhe 2001.
• Antonio Soler. Sonatas . amphion records, Karlsruhe 2002.
• Robert Schumann - to be rediscovered. Scenes, arabesques, ballads, chants for piano. ars musici
• Bach transcriptions for piano. Rediscovered approaches to a genius. Bach Transcriptions for Piano. Rediscovered Treatments of a Genius . ars musici 2009.
• Bach Metamorphosis. Transcriptions by W. Braunfels, C. Tausig, R. Vaughan Williams and others . hänssler CLASSIC at SCM-Verlag, Holzgerlingen 2013, DNB 1030295808 .
• Bach Illuminations. Transcriptions by F. Liszt, D. Kabalevsky, A. Nebel, W. Whittaker, W. Prado and others . hänssler CLASSIC at SCM-Verlag, Holzgerlingen 2014, DNB 1062974743 .
• Bach Transcriptions - magnum opus I . hänssler CLASSIC , Neuhausen 2017, DNB 1181445604 .
• Bach Transcriptions - Opus magnum II . hänssler CLASSIC , Neuhausen 2018, DNB 1172390770 .

Transcriptions of works by JS Bach for piano solo and 2 pianos

• “I call to you, Lord Jesus Christ” BWV 639, 2013.
• Adagio, from the organ toccata BWV 564, 2013.
• "Are you now, Jesus, coming down from heaven" BWV 650, 2014.
• "Jesus, take your limbs" BWV 40, 2016.
• Theme and 3 variations on "Do you want to give your heart to me" BWV 518, 2016.
• "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland", from the cantata of the same name BWV 62 for 2 pianos (together with Wagner Stefani d'Aragona Malheiro Prado), 2014.

Publications

• Clara Wieck-Schumann. A path through your piano work . In: Üben & Musiegen, H. 5/1988 (October).
• Joseph Haydn: Eight Sonatas . In: Booklet for the CD cassette of the same name, 2000.
• From Montserrat to El Escorial: Antonio Soler . In: Booklet for CD Antonio Soler. Sonatas, 2002.
• Wild flowers from El Escorial. The piano music by Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783) . In: Üben & Musiegen, H. 3/2004 (June / July).
• Basic principles of methodical practice. Report on the master class with Prof. Hans Leygraf . In: Consequences. Edited by Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Volume 3 / WS 2004/05, Edition 6.
• Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn: Three pieces for four hands. Edited by Barbara Gabler. Furore-Verlag, Kassel 1990 (fue 120). Provided with technical notes by A. Nebel.

literature

• Illuminations: Bach illuminates and illuminates. A conversation with Professor Angelika Nebel about the release of her new CD . In: NMZ 2015/04 , p. 46.

Web links

• Angelika Nebel's website
• Biography on Bach Cantata's website
• Works by Angelika Nebel in the catalog of the German National Library